Reading group choices 2019: selections for lively discussions

Fiction: An American marriage/ Tayari Jones

Aunti Poldi and the Sicilian lions/ Mario Giordano

Autumn/ Ali Smith

Becoming Mrs. Lewis/ Patti Callahan

The burning girl/ Claire Messud

Carnegie's maid/ Marie Benedict

Chariot on the mountain/ Jack Ford

The darkest child/ Delores Phillips

Gone so long: a novel/ Andre Dubus III

The great alone/ Kristin Hannah

Grief cottage/ Gail Godwin

The house of unexpected sisters: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (18)/ Alexander McCall Smith

If the creek don't rise/ Leah Weiss

Laurentian divide/ Sarah Stonich

The long flight home/ Alan Hlad

The ministry of utmost happiness/ Arundhati Roy

Miss Kopp just won't quit: a Kopp Sisters novel/ Amy Stewart

Moon brow/ Shahriar Mandanipour and Khalili Sara

Rust and stardust/ T. Greenwood

Saints for all occasions/ J. Courtney Sullivan

Saving Miss Oliver's/ Stephen Davenport

The seas/ Samantha Hunt

See what I have done/ Sarah Schmidt

Sold on a Monday/ Kristina McMorris

The stars are fire/ Anita Shreve

Stay with me/ Ayobami Adebayo

The tattooist of Auschwitz/ Heather Morris

Tomorrow's bread/ Anna Jean Mayhew

The Underground Railroad/ Colson Whitehead

Us & them/ Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

Waiting for tomorrow/ Nathacha Appanah

Non-Fiction: The best of us: a memoir/ Joyce Maynard

Beyond measure: essays/ Rachel Z. Arndt

Everything is horrible and wonderful: a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss/ Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history/ Keith O'Brien

Grand theft horse/ G. Neri and Corban Wilkin

Hillbilly elegy/ J.D. Vance

I found my tribute: a memoir/ Ruth Fitzmaurice

Killers of the flower moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI/ David Grann

Letters from Max: a book of friendship/ Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo

The motherhood affidavits: a memoir/ Laura Jean Baker

Prairie fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder/ Caroline Fraser

The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women/ Kate Moore

The stranger in the woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit/ Michael Finkel

Taking flight: a history of birds and people in the heart of America/ Michael Edmonds

This atom bomb in me/ Lindsey A. Freeman

Women rowing north: navigating life's currents and flourishing as we age/ Mary Pipher.

Young Adult: All the stars denied/ Guadalupe Garcia McCall

The astonishing color of after/ Emily X.R. Pan

Borrowed/ Lucia DiStefano

Brown: my alter ego is a superhero/ Hakon Ovreas, Oyvind Torseter, and Kari Dickson

Cloud and wallfish/ Anne Nesbet

Dear Evan Hansen: the novel/ Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul

Fing's war/ Benny Lindelauf and John Nieuwenhuizen

Geekerella: a fangirl fairy tale/ Ashley Poston

Ghost boys/ Jewell Parker Rhodes

I am not your perfect Mexican daughter/ Erika L. Sanchez

Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world/ Ashely Herring Blake

Like Vanessa/ Tami Charles

Love, hate, and other filters/ Samira Ahmed

The poet x/ Elizabeth Acevedo

A room away from the wolves/ Nova Ren Suma

The war outside/ Monica Hesse

The wonderling/ Mira Bartok.